Marie Westby

Marie is a Physical Therapy Clinical Resource Therapist in rheumatology at the Mary Pack Arthritis Program in Vancouver, Canada where she has practiced for 36 years. She is a Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Aging SMART and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia. Marie has a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from UBC and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Public Health, University of Alberta. Her clinical, education and research interests include osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthritis and joint replacement with a focus on rehabilitation and exercise prescription, outcome measurement, practice guidelines and quality of care. Marie’s current research engages clinicians and patients in implementing an online toolkit of hip and knee replacement rehabilitation quality indicator resources and evaluating their uptake and effects on quality of care, patient outcomes and experiences.

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